Persephone's Journey Artist's Book by Radical Emprints
“In March 2020, I wrote a little digital storybook with a retelling of the myth of Persephone. Somewhere along the line, someone said, ‘You should letterpress print this.’ A year later, here it is: my first tiny book.
[Cover printed] on polar white Stonehenge 100% cotton paper. [Type] printed in gold ink with a red foil stamped pomegranate on the cover.
Persephone’s story is about grief—about traveling to the Underworld and about finding our own way(s) back. This retelling has helped me to think about grief as a landscape and as an endless, cyclical journey. I made it because I needed it. I also made it for those of us who carry grief in our daily lives, and for those of us who love people who carry it. So, everyone.
This is a story about agency, about depression, about traversing the wilderness of grief. It is about making a new home where it seemed impossible to imagine staying.
Created with deep love, intention, & a scrappy will to keep going through it all. I hope you find something useful in it.
Love,
Nicole
April 4, 2021” - Radical Emprints
5.25” x 5.25”
*This item is discount eligible.
“In March 2020, I wrote a little digital storybook with a retelling of the myth of Persephone. Somewhere along the line, someone said, ‘You should letterpress print this.’ A year later, here it is: my first tiny book.
[Cover printed] on polar white Stonehenge 100% cotton paper. [Type] printed in gold ink with a red foil stamped pomegranate on the cover.
Persephone’s story is about grief—about traveling to the Underworld and about finding our own way(s) back. This retelling has helped me to think about grief as a landscape and as an endless, cyclical journey. I made it because I needed it. I also made it for those of us who carry grief in our daily lives, and for those of us who love people who carry it. So, everyone.
This is a story about agency, about depression, about traversing the wilderness of grief. It is about making a new home where it seemed impossible to imagine staying.
Created with deep love, intention, & a scrappy will to keep going through it all. I hope you find something useful in it.
Love,
Nicole
April 4, 2021” - Radical Emprints
5.25” x 5.25”
*This item is discount eligible.
“In March 2020, I wrote a little digital storybook with a retelling of the myth of Persephone. Somewhere along the line, someone said, ‘You should letterpress print this.’ A year later, here it is: my first tiny book.
[Cover printed] on polar white Stonehenge 100% cotton paper. [Type] printed in gold ink with a red foil stamped pomegranate on the cover.
Persephone’s story is about grief—about traveling to the Underworld and about finding our own way(s) back. This retelling has helped me to think about grief as a landscape and as an endless, cyclical journey. I made it because I needed it. I also made it for those of us who carry grief in our daily lives, and for those of us who love people who carry it. So, everyone.
This is a story about agency, about depression, about traversing the wilderness of grief. It is about making a new home where it seemed impossible to imagine staying.
Created with deep love, intention, & a scrappy will to keep going through it all. I hope you find something useful in it.
Love,
Nicole
April 4, 2021” - Radical Emprints
5.25” x 5.25”
*This item is discount eligible.
Nicole Manganelli (she/her) is the printmaker behind the press(es) at radical emprints. She started to learn letterpress printing in 2012, just as she was also beginning to learn about grassroots organizing. She ended up spending about nine years at a base-building organization, where she worked on a health care is a human right campaign and learned about teaching grassroots fundraising and principled, values-aligned grantwriting (both for when she’s working in orgs within and outside of the non-profit industrial complex.) She was doing all of this while learning how to be a letterpress printer — so it was a natural progression to start putting printmaking & organizing together.
